Hours of deliberation, debate and discussion
have come to an official close following a unanimous vote to adopt the Proposal to Restructure
Pledging. The Campus Life Board approved the
proposal at its D e t . 12 meeting.
The new proposal takes effect this Spring, and
in theory will make the way pledging used to be
done a thing of the past.
T h e proposal o u t l i n e s new g u i d e l i n e s for
structuring pledging so that it is more educational and less hazing-prone.
The four-hour meeting to vote was dedicated
to the lengthy process of reviewing the document and m o d i f y i n g it into one on which all
Board members could agree. The proposal in the
hands of Board members was literally hot off
the presses, and was the latest in a series of everevolving versions of the proposal.

The Board rushed the document so that the
final copies could be distributed to Greeks to
review over the break, so that they will be ready
to i m p l e m e n t c h a n g e s
this semester.
At the m e e t i n g , t h e
Board reviewed length
of pledging time, the iss u e of c a l i s t h e n i c s in
p l e d g i n g and accountability.
" T h e c o n c e r n that I
have about these smaller
matters is that it will be
a document I haven't
even read," said Board member Ron Wolthuis.
"We are literally rewriting the document."
But the last-minute changes were still "in the
spirit of the document," Board chair Jim Allis
said.
One of the most apparent changes wrought

by the proposal will be a longer pledging period. The time frame shifts up from two weeks,
three weekends to three and a half weeks, four
weekends.
Total hours for pledging and related activities
will b e 85, a l l o w i n g
Greeks a m a x i m u m of
2 5 h o u r s per w e e k to
enculture their new recruits.
As part of the new
deal, Greek o r g a n i z a tions will be required to
submit a detailed listing
of their pledging activities, including a description of the activity and the time and place it will
occur. For each event, the organizations will be
required to have one or more alumni present,
and will be subject to spot checking, when Col-

There have been injuries...
and not all have been
handled appropriately.
—Janet Andersen,
Campus Life Board

Members of the community joined Hope students and faculty to pay homage Martin Luther
King Jr.
A packed Dimnent Chapel housed the service,
which has taken palce annually for the past five
years, Monday, January 15 at 7 pm.
The evening began with a commemorative
slide presentation, w h i c h featured photos of
Martin Luther King and of the civil rights
stuggle. A litany of commemoration was read
by members of Hope faculty and students, and
included verses read in Cherokee, Laotian, and
Spanish.
"We are here to celebrate the life and teaching of Martin Luther King Jr. and to c o m m e m o rate his dream," said Lamell McMorris, who was
the featured guest speaker at this year's service.
McMorris spoke passionately about the theme
of the service, " R e m e m b e r i n g the Past to Better
the Future." He urged the audience to position
themselves in the present, yet still recall the past
and anticipate the future.
"Martin Luther King embodied the theme of
tonight's service," McMorris said. "He held onto
the present, but still had hope for the future. We
cannot remember the past or better the future
until we grasp the present. There is hope for a
better tomorrow by working for a better today.
Our call is to remember the past; what it was
and how it used to be in order to create a new
tomorrow."
McMorris urged the audience to accept the
challenge to better America, a struggle which
has been fought since King's time and before.
"The dreamer woke up and saw the nightmare
of t h e s o c i a l a n d e c o n o m i c s i t u a t i o n s , "
McMorris said. "You, the youth, are standing in
the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. You are the
creators and initiators of social change. You must
stand up to re-build and re-unite America."
Throughout the service, the Gospel Choir sang
songs of praise and remembrance and involved
the audience in their singing of spiritual anthems.
They started out with the national Negro Hymn
"Lift Every Voice and Sing" and also included a
rendition of "We Shall Overcome." Audience
members and speakers alike were moved by the
emotional and driving performance of the choir.
"I am fired up, thanks to the Gospel Choir!"
McMorris said.
Admission to the service was free, though
donations were accepted. Each year, donations
are accepted at the service and all proceeds go
to a local organization that works to help satisfy
the community needs. This year the recipient of
the donations was the St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church, which recently suffered over $1 million in damages due to a fire.
"This year the choice for the organization was
fairly obvious," said John Yielding of the Education Department. "The parish at St. Francis is
one of the most culturally diverse in the area.
Every cent that we collect will go to St. Francis
to help them get back on their feet, to build back
and to move forward."

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Building Hope: Katherine Kruse ('97), a Habitat for Humanity volunteer,
works to reconstruct a home on 14th St. and Columbia for a Holland family Saturday
afternoon. The on-going project should be completed by May.

The rules of the underaged drinking game are
changing, and Public Safety and Dean Frost
want students to know about it—before they get
arrested.
State legislators passed a policy effective last
September that allows police officers to slop any
minor they believe may have consumed alcohol and administer a preliminary breath test
( P B T ) on t h e s p o t .
Blowing a .02 percent in
the PBT will result in a
citation for underaged
drinking. The level of intoxication punishable
for drivers is a significantly higher .1 percent.
Any person refusing
the PBT will be cited for
a civil i n f r a c t i o n and
fined $164.
"There's a real strong
emphasis on zero tolerance," said Dean of Students Richard Frost. "My concern is for students who go to a party and have had one beer,
two beers."
Frost and officers at Public Safety are teaming up to educate students about the law to avoid
confusion similar to that which sprung up last
fall regarding several citations for "frequenting
a house of ill fame." The citations were handed
out by city police at an off-campus party, and
recipients cried out about the unfairness of this
"obscure" infraction.

alcohol

testing

of minors

"It's one of those laws like the house of ill
f a m e law," Frost said. " S t u d e n t s need to be
aware that officers have that as part of their protocol."
" I ' m afraid that there's going to be quite a
few people that could be arrested under this new
law," said Duane Terpstra, Director of Public
Safety.
While Public Safety officers are also equipped
with the PBTs, officers have decided against
checking students for alcohol consumption on
c a m p u s because they
fear it could make students hesitate to call for
assistance when an intoxicated student needs
medical attention.
"Most all of our alcohol complaints will be
h a n d l e d in t h e s a m e
m a n n e r , " Terpstra said.
"We want people not to
be afraid to call us when
there is a medical problem because of this law."
P u b l i c S a f e t y will
continue to handle alcohol complaints by referring them to Student Development.
"Our responsibility is more to the College and
the students, and not to get statistics on how
many people we could arrest," Terpstra said.
Terpstra and Frost hope that informed stud e n t s will play it smart w h e n it c o m e s to
underaged drinking and the new policy.
There will be an informational meeting regarding the new alcohol policy tonight at 7 pm.
in the Maas Conference Room.

I'm afraid that there's going to be quite a few people
that could be arrested
under this new law.
—Duane Terpstra, Director
of Public Safety

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Gospel songs thai rose out of a
marching crowd. Painled rally posters stuck to all the trees in the old
n e i g h b o r h o o d that read, " B r i n g
your walking shoes." Poetry that
bellowed the words, "Black is beautiful," and "Black is Power."
Martin Luther King led a revolution where art was power.
Dr. Stephen Hemenway, Professor of English who is teaching a
course in African-American literature this semester, s^id, "Gospel
music always gave strength to the
people involved in the movement.
It kept their minds on freedom and
helped them endure the brutal harassment."
King's undeniable power as a
speaker moved the African-American masses to talk in poetry. "Part
of the p o e t r y of Martin Luther
King's speeches stemmed from his
training in classical rhetoric, and
also from a long African-American
oral tradition," H e m e n w a y said,
' T h i s emphasized the sound.of the
spoken word."

Smith's collection of posters (top), batiks from Africa (bottom left), and her husband
Franz's art {bottom right) feed the eyes and the spirit.

Dr. Hemenway
During the civil rights movement of the sixties, literature took
the language of hopeful revolution
to new heights. "I remember reading a series of powerful essays by
J a m e s Baldwin titled, 4 The Fire
Next T i m e , ' " said Hemenway,
"And being awakened in a literary
way to the fact that African-Americans had been waiting for over onehundred years since emancipation
for something to change."
Martin Luther King led a revolution whose impact is stamped on
the face of the arts forever. "The
Afrfcan-American struggle for freedom is connected to the arts in the
desire to be liberated from having
to write, paint and sing a certain
kind of way," Hemenway said.
T h e s h e e r p o w e r of t h e s e
things: poetry, art, music, is demonstrated by the story told by a man
who worked closely with Martin
Luther King. Andrew Young, the
mayor of Atlanta during the Carter
administration, wrote of participating in a march led by King, Young,
and o t h e r l e a d e r s , and b e i n g
brought to an abrupt stop by a line
of armed police. Told by the police
that they must turn back and disperse or be stopped by force, Young
started singing the Christian anthem, "1 Want Jesus To Walk With
Me." Soon all the marchers were
singing, and they began to move
forward again, despite the warnings
of the police. Instead of stopping
t h e m w i t h v i o l e n c e , the p o l i c e
stepped aside and watched them
march right on by, listening to the
drones of the spiritual song.

Walking into the house of
Germaine Smith, Hope College's
community liason, is like walking
into a veritable art museum. Smith
and her h u s b a n d , F r a n z , have
decorated their living space with
batiks, drums, posters and authentically garbed dolls that c o m memorate their African-American
heritage.
"Much of what decorates our

house we've picked up on our trips
to Africa," said Smith, "And some
of it does come from the sixties
when the civil rights m o v e m e n t
was happening."
One of the pictures displayed
illustrates the back of an AfricanAmerican w o m a n ' s head. Franz
Smith himself etched the portrait
into metal and painted it. "That was
done around the time Martin Luther
King was shot," said Smith of her
husband's work. When asked who
the w o m a n in the portrait was,
Franz Smith answered, "I sat be-

hind this sister on the Chicago
train one day in 1968. She was
wearing her hair in an afro; this
was when African-Americans
were just starting to wear their
hair like that. I went home and
painted her from memory."
The Smith's cultural decorations reflect their deep commitment to the continuing struggle of
the A f r i c a n - A m e r i c a n c o m m u nity. "What we are is not just on
our faces," said Smith, "And I
mean all of us."

of the hype and publicity, "Friends"
has indeed been wildly successful.
But a s w e ' v e s e e n w i t h t h e
twentysomething hits " 0 0 2 1 0 " and
'Melrose Place," w e all know what
goes up must c o m e down.
"It will be interesting to see how
long this will last...or if it's just a
fad," Nielsen said.